Table 3.
Examples of where other health and non-health sectors (private, public and not-for-profit) could synergize NTD efforts
| Sector | Opportunities for synergies |
|---|---|
| Veterinary | • Disease surveillance (clinical and laboratory) |
| • Field related logistics | |
| • One Health initiative | |
| Policy | • Legislation |
| • Assigning and/or increasing programme budgets | |
| • Streamlining financial flows to support effective supply chains | |
| • Implement strategies to promote economic development of affected populations (e.g. micro enterprises, revolving funds, etc.) | |
| Economic | • Cost and feasibility studies |
| Marketing | • Tap on private sector expertise and adapt to use in health programmes |
| Communication | • Adapt private and public sector strategies |
| Pharmaceutical | • In conjunction with national academia and other organizations (e.g. Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)), support development of new drugs and diagnostics |
| Environmental | • Programmes targeting sustainable environment protection actions to prevent severe environmental degradation in NTD areas |
| Information Technology (IT) | • Integrated information systems |
| • Access to inter-sectoral data bases | |
| • Geographic information systems | |
| • New surveillance systems | |
| Transportation | • Private companies (e.g. beverage sector) support public health interventions |
| Malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS | • Include NTDs in a repackaging of public health interventions |
| • Malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS benefit from integrated synergies | |
| • NTDs benefit from high media profile of the three big ones | |
| Agriculture | • Encourage community development in NTD endemic areas by |
| • enabling local produce and self-sufficiency; | |
| • organic farming; | |
| • assistance in placing produce in markets; and | |
| • One Health initiative | |
| Education | • Access to rural and marginalized population groups |
| • Sensitizing in health and environment topics | |
| • Incorporating health into educational messages and curricula | |
| Anthropology | • Provide tools to enable integration of local cultural patterns into public health programmes |
| Psychology | • Integrated mental health programmes relying on ethical and culturally sensitive tools supporting vulnerable populations |
| Development | • Poverty alleviation programmes |
| • Capacity building in income generating activities |